Example sentences of "[adv] his [noun pl] give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , for all that he 'd been around there was definitely something that was attractive and appealing about him ; only his eyes gave him away , because they could turn cold and introspective while those around him were whooping it up . |
| 2 | Thus his writings give the opposite impression to those of the earlier moralists like Salvian , and even of that conveyed by Paulinus of Pella , a member of the senatorial aristocracy who collaborated with the Visigoths in the early years of their settlement in Aquitaine , but eventually lost the majority of his property , as he relates in his autobiographical poem , the Eucharisticon . |
| 3 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 4 | But even his eyes gave her no answer . |
| 5 | Then his legs gave way , and he dropped back heavily into his seat . |